I thought that it was worth filtering the story down to the core 'allegations':
1. Nigel Farage’s 19-year-old son Sam is being paid to work for his MEP father through his European Union expenses allowance, despite being a politics student at Exeter University.
2. Farage also employs his wife Kirsten as a £24,000-a-year secretary using public funds.
3. He is being investigated by Olaf, the EU’s antifraud watchdog.
4. Olaf has been alerted to UKIP’s use of allowances meant for funding MEPs’ assistants to pay the salaries of party workers.
5. However, leaked e-mails reveal that Farage and his colleagues have failed to provide the EU with requested information about how it gives its regional organisers in Britain jobs as MEPs’ assistants so that their salaries can be paid from public funds.
6. Koen Snijders, who works for the EU’s general finance directorate, said the UKIP leader and his MEPs’ accountant, Robin Collett, had “promised to produce evidence regarding this expenditure” four months earlier but none had materialised.
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